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Student Loans, Communications Majors, and Preparing Kids for a Robot Future

from Episode 149 - Ron Bennington (Live from Moontower) · #149

3 min

Tim rants about student loan debt being a trap, mocks his intern's communications degree, and riffs on how impossible it is to prepare kids for an AI-dominated future, tying into old Redeye stories.

In this bit7 moments
  • Tim on student loan forgiveness: burn in hell for the rest of your life if you got a degree in English, you loser.
  • Tim has an intern in college for communications who will owe $320,000, and she's stupid for wanting to be Wendy Williams.
  • He has a six-month-old kid he's taking care of on the other side of town.
  • Tim says you can't prepare kids for the future because everything changes so fast—nobody knows what's coming.
  • Tell them to take up robotics, but no one even knows if that's the move.
  • He says he'll beat the game if he dies by any hand other than a robot.
  • They keep making AI eyes because the people at the top want us gone.
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